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Telegram Contests
ContestBot is now ready to accept submissions for the iOS UI Competition.
Start the bot, choose βiOS UI Competitionβ, answer the botβs questions, then send:
- A link to the commit on a public GitHub repository, forked from the Telegram-iOS repository.
Note: Your repository may stay private until the deadline. Make sure your code is consistent with the reproducible builds process β we will build each app automatically. Entries failing to do so, will receive a relevant penalty.
Start the bot, choose βiOS UI Competitionβ, answer the botβs questions, then send:
- A link to the commit on a public GitHub repository, forked from the Telegram-iOS repository.
Note: Your repository may stay private until the deadline. Make sure your code is consistent with the reproducible builds process β we will build each app automatically. Entries failing to do so, will receive a relevant penalty.
Out of the 27 total submissions, 23 implemented at least one animation flow β and 21 entries have earned rewards.
The new archive animations proved particularly challenging for all contestants β as no one was able to implement the provided design flow for every possible state of the chat list.
However, Hip Mantis deserves special recognition for their excellent implementation of the chat preview flow. For the strongest submission, Hip Mantis receives
As previously announced, #overdue entries were accepted, while being moved down 1 place as a penalty.
Please meet the winners:
1st PLACE β $3,000
2nd PLACE β $2,000
Entries that implemented both parts of the task with less severe issues than other submissions.
3rd PLACE β $1,250
Submissions that implemented only the first part of the task (the archive flow), but did not cover the chat preview flow OR were affected with more severe bugs.
β Overdue entry (
4th PLACE β $750
Apps featuring only the second part of the task (the chat preview flow) OR entries with extreme issues.
BONUS β $500
β Overdue entry (
Congratulations to the winners and a warm welcome to all Telegram Contests newcomers!
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Forwarded from Telegram Designers
Prize fund: $30,000
Deadline: 23:59 on October 5th (Dubai time)
Who can participate: Everyone
Results: October 19th, 2023
Telegram is hosting a new design contest for its Android app.
The Task:
Create a detailed redesign concept for the Telegram Android app. Your concept should maintain the appβs core essence and lightweight feel while introducing an improved visual aesthetic with updated elements.
The guidelines of Material Design 3 may also be used for additional reference. To be eligible for any rewards, your submission must include all the areas and components outlined below.
Minimum Requirements:
Chat List
β’ Bottom Navigation Bar
Chats
β’ Private Chats (including Secret Chats)
β’ Channels (both admin and subscriber perspectives)
β’ Groups (including those with topics enabled)
Profiles
β’ User Profiles
β’ Group and Channel Info pages
Settings
β’ Main Settings Page
β’ User Info
Your design should thoroughly consider various scenarios and encompass all related elements and components β such as pinned messages, service messages, shared media, stories and more.
For the Chat List you can include an optional version with a white header (and an alternate translucent appearance).
Submission Format:
1) The layouts can be implemented as static .png files. For any animation demos, use .mp4 format (without sound).
Source files and properly structured Figma projects are also welcome.
2) If you include videos, you must also provide several static .png images from each video that serve as a storyboard.
3) If you use complex animated icons, they must be in lottie json or .tgs format.
Submissions that include detailed visualizations, such as videos showcasing your project from a general perspective and offering in-depth views of elements like transition flows between screens and interface animations (including buttons) are more likely to receive a higher place in the prize rankings.
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@ContestBot will begin accepting submissions at a later date. We will further clarify the submission instructions closer to the deadline.
If you're looking for more contests for designers, there are similar third-party competitions being held by @CryptoBotRU.
β’ Motion Designers
β’ UI/UX
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Prize fund: $50,000
Deadline: 23:59 on October 9th (Dubai time)
Who can participate: Everyone
Results: October 31st, 2023
Telegram is launching a contest for developers of Mini Apps like this one. One of the goals of this competition is to create a variety of examples and reusable tools for future Mini App developers.
The Task:
The task is to build any useful Mini App for Telegram and publish its client and server code on Github.
Your submission must include:
β’ A GitHub repository containing the source code of your example Mini App, built from scratch. You can use any programming language for the server-side code. The source code of your app must be easy to understand and reusable for any developer starting to build Mini Apps for Telegram. For more, see the βMini App requirementsβ section below.
β’ Comprehensive and organized documentation in English, including a setup guide. Ensure the guide addresses every element of your solution, and the documentation details all potential errors and exceptions. It should be written in a user-friendly way that is approachable even for inexperienced developers. Translations in other languages are welcome too.
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Mini App requirements:
β’ Design a simple yet functional app. For reference, see @DurgerKingBot or @wallet.
β’ Your solution should include at least one fully functional Mini App example. Example apps are allowed to showcase fictional services or generate placeholder data, such as creating a mock store.
β’ It is strictly prohibited to implement a browser view of actual webpages, the Mini App must be a separate entity built from scratch solely for its purpose. For example a "Weather App" submission that only provides a browser view for an existing weather website is not allowed. That said, actual webpages are allowed for authorization flows where a user is required to sign up or log in to use the service.
β’ Recommended Mini App categories include games, dating, community management, venue booking, e-commerce, Ρontent editing, etc.
β’ Each additional Mini App example can qualify for extra rewards, but only if it represents a different app category.
Evaluation Criteria:
We will evaluate each submission's code and documentation quality from the developer perspective, as well as its example Mini Apps from the user perspective. The app should be useful for developers, users, or both.
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@ContestBot will begin accepting submissions at a later date. We will further clarify the submission instructions closer to the deadline.
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Telegram Contests
Clarifications for participants of the Mini App Contest
Q: Can I submit my existing Mini App?
A: If you do so, please make sure your Mini App fully meets the Contest Guidelines.
Q: What do you mean by βa GitHub repository containing the source code of your example Mini App, built from scratchβ?
A: This means you have to submit the complete source code (server side included) of your Mini App under BSD, MIT or other free license. Anyone should be able to re-use it later.
Q: Do I have to provide a fully functional Mini App or will you build it from the sources?
A: You have to provide a working Mini App and make sure it remains operational until 10 days after the contest results are announced.
Q: Can I use X?
A: You can use any tools, like build tools, lottie renderers, etc. β providing they are properly documented and explained in your step-by-step guide.
Q: Can I use UI-frameworks?
A: UI-frameworks are allowed in this contest.
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P.S. Make sure you've made yourself familiar with the Contest Task β most questions we've seen are covered by the Task itself.
Q: Can I submit my existing Mini App?
A: If you do so, please make sure your Mini App fully meets the Contest Guidelines.
Q: What do you mean by βa GitHub repository containing the source code of your example Mini App, built from scratchβ?
A: This means you have to submit the complete source code (server side included) of your Mini App under BSD, MIT or other free license. Anyone should be able to re-use it later.
Q: Do I have to provide a fully functional Mini App or will you build it from the sources?
A: You have to provide a working Mini App and make sure it remains operational until 10 days after the contest results are announced.
Q: Can I use X?
A: You can use any tools, like build tools, lottie renderers, etc. β providing they are properly documented and explained in your step-by-step guide.
Q: Can I use UI-frameworks?
A: UI-frameworks are allowed in this contest.
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P.S. Make sure you've made yourself familiar with the Contest Task β most questions we've seen are covered by the Task itself.
Telegram Contests
ContestBot is now ready to accept submissions for the Android Design Contest.
Start the bot, choose βAndroid Design Contestβ, answer the botβs questions, then send:
- A link to either private or public channel β you must upload all static layouts and videos from your archive to this channel, provide a table of contents.
- An archive containing all the resources in accordance with the terms of the contest.
Note: Your channel may stay private until the deadline. Make sure you assign it a username after the deadline.
Start the bot, choose βAndroid Design Contestβ, answer the botβs questions, then send:
- A link to either private or public channel β you must upload all static layouts and videos from your archive to this channel, provide a table of contents.
- An archive containing all the resources in accordance with the terms of the contest.
Note: Your channel may stay private until the deadline. Make sure you assign it a username after the deadline.
Prize fund: $40,000 β from which the 1st place winner will receive $15,000 if any submissions qualify for 1st place.
Deadline: 23:59 on October 15th (Dubai time)
Who can participate: Everyone
Results: October 29th, 2023
Telegram is hosting a competition for ML engineers to identify programming and markup languages in code snippets.
The Task: implement a library that detects the programming and markup language of code snippets from message text. You can use any publicly available data to train your solution.
Details: https://contest.com/docs/ML-Competition-2023.
@ContestBot will begin accepting submissions at a later date. We will further clarify the submission instructions closer to the deadline.
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Android Design Contest: Submissions
We received 89 submissions for the Android Design Contest.
Everyone is welcome to check out the designs on contest.com while our judges evaluate the results:
https://contest.com/android-design-2023
We ask each participant to add a comment to their submission with a brief explanation of the structure of their archive, how it is intended to be viewed, as well as of anything else that might need an explanation. Good luck!
We received 89 submissions for the Android Design Contest.
Everyone is welcome to check out the designs on contest.com while our judges evaluate the results:
https://contest.com/android-design-2023
We ask each participant to add a comment to their submission with a brief explanation of the structure of their archive, how it is intended to be viewed, as well as of anything else that might need an explanation. Good luck!
Telegram Contests
ContestBot is now ready to accept submissions for the Telegram Mini App Contest. (The new deadline is October 10, 23:59 Dubai time.)
Start the bot, choose βMini App Contestβ, answer the botβs questions, then send:
- A link to the commit on a public GitHub repository. We will evaluate your entry based on its submitted commit. Any commits after the deadline won't be considered for evaluation.
- A message that provides a brief description of your Mini App. As a reference, kindly check the sample provided below.
Note: The bot will allow you to submit several Mini Apps one by one. Your repository may stay private until the deadline.
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Mini App Sample Description
@DurgerKingBot β a Mini App that provides a demo flow for ordering fictional food. User is presented with a storefront where they can browse and select food items, then place a sample order.
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General Requirements
- You must submit your entry from the account that owns the bots that host your Mini Apps.
- The commit must mention a relevant sample bot and the Mini App with a brief description for each (see βMini App Sample Descriptionβ above.).
- Make sure that all your bots and Mini Apps are operational and can be accessed and used by anyone on the production server.
- If you submit more than one Mini App, you must ensure each has a separate repository.
- A separate bot must be used for each Mini App. Alternatively, you can use t.me/BotUsername/AppName links for each.
- Comprehensive and organized documentation (for details, see the contest task) must be placed directly to the repository.
Start the bot, choose βMini App Contestβ, answer the botβs questions, then send:
- A link to the commit on a public GitHub repository. We will evaluate your entry based on its submitted commit. Any commits after the deadline won't be considered for evaluation.
- A message that provides a brief description of your Mini App. As a reference, kindly check the sample provided below.
Note: The bot will allow you to submit several Mini Apps one by one. Your repository may stay private until the deadline.
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Mini App Sample Description
@DurgerKingBot β a Mini App that provides a demo flow for ordering fictional food. User is presented with a storefront where they can browse and select food items, then place a sample order.
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General Requirements
- You must submit your entry from the account that owns the bots that host your Mini Apps.
- The commit must mention a relevant sample bot and the Mini App with a brief description for each (see βMini App Sample Descriptionβ above.).
- Make sure that all your bots and Mini Apps are operational and can be accessed and used by anyone on the production server.
- If you submit more than one Mini App, you must ensure each has a separate repository.
- A separate bot must be used for each Mini App. Alternatively, you can use t.me/BotUsername/AppName links for each.
- Comprehensive and organized documentation (for details, see the contest task) must be placed directly to the repository.
Forwarded from Telegram Designers
Prize fund: $10,000
Deadline: 23:59 on October 19th (Dubai time)
Who can participate: Everyone
Results: October 26th, 2023
Telegram is hosting a competition for artists to draw new icons for Telegram's Android and iOS apps. The best icons may be later offered to users in addition to the default sets currently presented in both apps.
The Task
Create at least 1 icon and adapt it for both Android and iOS. Submissions featuring more than 1 icon are accepted providing that each of the icon is thematically different.
Each of your app icons must be based on the core form of the Telegram logo. You are free to incorporate any scenes or characters, except copyrighted materials.
Using Telegram's official sticker and emoji packs is allowed for references (you can adapt characters to create icons based on them). The use of generative AI is strictly prohibited.
App Icon Guidelines
Android
β’ Follows the Android UI Guidelines
β’ Contains a PNG of 432x432px for each icon (you must also provide the following resolutions: 324Ρ 324px, 216Ρ 216px, 162Ρ 162px and 108Ρ 108px β each is used for different screen pixel densities). The icon must contain separate background and foreground layers
β’ Includes source files
P.S. For further references, clipping mask samples (for non-direct versions of the app we apply the masks from the archive), other icon resolutions and the suggested structure check the provided archive below this message.
iOS
β’ Follows the Apple Design Guidelines
β’ Contains a non-transparent PNG of 1024x1024px for each icon (make sure it looks correct when resized to 270x270px, 180x180px or 120x120px, otherwise provide separate images for each resolution)
β’ Includes source files
Submissions and Evaluation
@ContestBot will start accepting submissions closer to the deadline. The prize fund will be distributed among the best contributors. When evaluating submissions we will prioritize the quality of each artwork, its uniqueness, and its compliance with the βApp Icon Guidelinesβ β your contribution must be submitted in a βready to useβ format requiring zero adaptions or tweaks on our side.
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Telegram Contests
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Telegram Contests
ContestBot is now ready to accept submissions for the Telegram ML Competition.
Start the bot, choose βML Competitionβ, answer the botβs questions, then send:
- A ZIP-archive with the following structure:
For details, please refer to the contest documentation.
Start the bot, choose βML Competitionβ, answer the botβs questions, then send:
- A ZIP-archive with the following structure:
submission.zip
-> src - folder with the app's source code (obligatory)
-> libtglang.so - library (obligatory)
-> resources - folder with additional files which your library requires to work (please use relative paths to access them) (optional)
-> deb-packages.txt - a text file with line-break separated debian package names of all external dependencies (optional)
For details, please refer to the contest documentation.
Forwarded from Telegram Designers
ContestBot is now ready to accept submissions for the Telegram App Icon Competition.
Start the bot, choose βApp Icon Competitionβ, answer the botβs questions, then send:
- A ZIP-archive with the following structure:
Where:
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You will also be required to post your
Note:
For submissions with only 1 icon, you can directly include android and ios folders in your archive without a separate icon folder.
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P.S. Entries that fail to comply with the submission guidelines may be disqualified.
Start the bot, choose βApp Icon Competitionβ, answer the botβs questions, then send:
- A ZIP-archive with the following structure:
submission.zip/
ββ πicon_1/
β ββ πandroid/
β β ββ folder_contents
β ββ πios/
β β ββ folder_contents
ββ πicon_2/
ββ demo.png Where:
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submission.zip β is your archive;-
icon_1/2/3, etc. β are separate folders for each icon;-
android and ios β are platform-specific folders inside the icon folders;β
folder_contents β your icons adapted for the relevant platforms. For Android you must additionally follow the provided sample structure.β
demo.png β is an image that provides a summary of your work and serves as a brief overview. This can be a single canvas with all icons placed in a grid so anyone can take a quick look. Please avoid sending home screens packed into device mockups, they are not helpful. You will also be required to post your
demo.png file on contest.com after the deadline. (An announcement for this will come at a later date)Note:
For submissions with only 1 icon, you can directly include android and ios folders in your archive without a separate icon folder.
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P.S. Entries that fail to comply with the submission guidelines may be disqualified.
We are pleased to announce the results of the Android Design Contest. The judges thoroughly reviewed each of the 89 submissions.
The contestants brought several solid concepts and intriguing ideas to life β though even the top entries canβt be utilized without further polishing and refinements. Despite that, we are happy to award Stout Pony, Eager Jackal, Bold Crab and Happy Squid with
Meet the winners!
1st PLACE β $2,500
2nd PLACE β $1,500
3rd PLACE β $750
Congratulations to the winners and a happy Friday to you all!
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App Icon Competition: Submissions
We received 252 submissions for the App Icon Competition.
Each participant is now required to post
1. Go to contest.com, login with the account you've used to submit your work.
2. Open your submission.
3. Attach
Good luck!
P.S. Contestants who failed to post demo.png within the next 24 hours, may not be considered for evaluation.
We received 252 submissions for the App Icon Competition.
Each participant is now required to post
demo.png below their entry (you can also provide an optional comment):1. Go to contest.com, login with the account you've used to submit your work.
2. Open your submission.
3. Attach
demo.png. Good luck!
P.S. Contestants who failed to post demo.png within the next 24 hours, may not be considered for evaluation.
We were delighted to see so many interesting concepts and new takes on the Telegram icon β with a total of 252 submissions.
For this competition, we will be distributing the prize fund among all contributors who submitted at least one icon that we accepted. The award per entry is based on its overall evaluation.
While many of the submissions still require aesthetic changes, we have decided to further increase the total prize fund by an additional $2,600. This ensures as many contestants as possible will receive recognition.
Meet the winners!
$1,000
Sharp Unicorn
$600
Funky Hedgehog
Agile Raven
$400
Rich Cockroach
Night Heron
Brave Hawk
Fancy Otter
Sunny Dragon
Calm Dolphin
Sweet Raccoon
Brave Mink
Perfect Hawk
Mad Spider
$200
Fluffy Cow
Cool Lion
Tactful Butterfly
Agile Goat
Caring Phoenix
Funny Python
Mellow Beaver
Noble Ant
Gifted Toad
Agile Quokka
Happy Moth
Strict Ant
Cute Otter
Gifted Cat
Funny Meerkat
Slim Bee
Cute Lemur
Mad Mink
Jolly Elk
Sturdy Cock
Daring Ladybird
Sunny Moth
Hardy Bear
Suave Spider
Funky Chicken
Dashing Duck
Stylish Turtle
Noble Toad
$100
Modest Gecko
Desert Crab
Magic Rabbit
Mindful Wasp
Shiny Puffin
Merry Phoenix
Suave Kangaroo
Stylish Kangaroo
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Mini App Contest: Submissions
We received 186 submissions for the Mini App Contest, containing 206 total Mini Apps.
As the judges finalize their evaluations, all participants are welcome to study other submissions, vote and comment on them (you can share your thoughts from a user's perspective or create an issue in the appropriate repository, then post the link as a comment on contest.com).
This will become the foundation for community-driven development of an entire ecosystem of Mini Apps after the contest.
We received 186 submissions for the Mini App Contest, containing 206 total Mini Apps.
As the judges finalize their evaluations, all participants are welcome to study other submissions, vote and comment on them (you can share your thoughts from a user's perspective or create an issue in the appropriate repository, then post the link as a comment on contest.com).
This will become the foundation for community-driven development of an entire ecosystem of Mini Apps after the contest.
It was our pleasure to test all the Mini Apps that everyone submitted. The judges spent many hours using the apps and studying their source code β and they were happy to discover that some of them utilize the Telegram Mini App Platformβs features to great effect.
This contest introduced tons of innovative ideas β and both developers and users will greatly benefit from their diversity. We decided to increase the prize fund by another $16,250 to properly reward all the efforts that went into this content. Without further ado, meet the winners!
1st PLACE β $1,500
(Extra rewards:
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